2009/11/10 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:26:30AM +0000, H Alexandre wrote:
Hi,
I can see on the home page that Libvirt supports Linux virtualization platform (Xen, KVM…) but in the bindings page mentions about other languages integration (perl & java for instance).
I would like to know if there is a way (using those bindings) to use standard Libvirt based code to manage VMware virtualization platform ?
Yes in recent versions of libvirt there is now code allowing to handle ESX (and GSX), though we still need a driver page for it under http://libvirt.org/drivers.html (any chance Matthias ;-) ?)
I'll move it to the top of my todo list, right before getting another series of 10 patches for ESX upstream :-). Don't worry, I plan them for 0.7.4.
See http://libvirt.org/search.php?query=VMWare&submit=Search there are various post on this list about this
the URI format is: {esx|gsx}://[<user>@]<server>[:<port>][?transport={http|https}][&vcenter=<vcenter>][&no_verify={0|1}]
in general the following might be sufficient to establish a connection:
esx://server_name
That's the minimal one. In case you see SSL certificate errors you can append the no_verify option: esx://server_name/?no_verify=1 This disables certificate verification for libcurl.
and once you have a connection well, it's like for any other hypervisor, except you don't need to run libvirtd on the target host since it speaks directly to the ESX server.
Matthias is the expert for this driver, I am not :-)
Daniel
Matthias